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This Policy applies to Personal Data collected by us in connection with services we offer. This Policy applies to Personal Data we may collect via electronic channels and in hard copies (for example letters you post to us). Our website may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates (for example Google, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram). If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any Personal Data to these websites. Our website is not directed at minors (those under the age of 18 years) and minors are not eligible to use our services. We ask that minors refrain from using our service or submitting any Personal Data to us.
We collect Personal Data which you disclose to us via online and offline: We collect your Personal Data and Personal Data of your beneficiaries when you create a money transfer account with us by completing online forms. Personal Data we collect about you may include: name, surname, home address, email address, date of birth, mobile number, email address, credit and payment history, financial information, such as bank account numbers and credit/debit card numbers, and other Personal Data, including government identification numbers such as a driver’s license, state identification, passport, visa, Social Security and tax identification number, which may be required to complete the transaction. We do not knowingly collect and process sensitive Personal Data such as Personal Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, religious philosophical beliefs, trade union membership and data concerning health and sexual preference.
We may collect technical information about your visit such as Internet Protocol Address (IP); clickstreams to, through and from our website (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors; length of visits to certain pages; page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs); your login information, browser type and version; time zone setting; browser plug-in types and versions; operating system and platform and etc.
We may lawfully obtain information about you from other sources, including but not limited to: computer systems and mobile devices; and third-party sources, such as government agencies, identity verification services, electronic database services and consumer credit reporting agencies.
Personal Data held about you will be used for our core business and our marketing purposes, including joint marketing with other financial companies, such as follows: · to facilitate your monetary transaction; · to respond to any queries or provide you with information, products or services that you request; · to prevent or detect fraud, including fraudulent transactions, or abuses of our website as part of our efforts to keep our website safe and secure; · to ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device; · to administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; · to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you; · to manage our account and records; · to conduct research and analysis; and · to comply with court orders and applicable laws and regulations such as those relating to “know-your-customer,” and anti-money laundering requirements. We will retain your information for as long as required to provide the services and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations and to enforce our agreements.
We may share your Personal Data about your transactions and experiences with our affiliates for their everyday business purposes. We may provide your Personal Data to trusted third parties who help us with our business activities such as processing your monetary transaction or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your Personal Data only as necessary to provide these services to us. We may also disclose your Personal Data: · in the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, we will share your Personal Data with our successor; · with analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website; · to any other third party with your prior consent to do so; and · if we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or protect our safety, our members, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Data protection law gives rights to individuals in respect of the Personal Data that organizations collect and hold about them: for example you have the right to ask us not to share your Personal Data (a) with our affiliates and non-affiliates to market to you, and (b) with our affiliates for their everyday business purposes concerning your creditworthiness. If your Personal Data changes, you may exercise your rights to access, correct, or modify your account, by making the change on your account information page or by e-mail to the following address: online.usa@smallworldfs.com. You may also call us on our customer service number at 1-866-210-8002. If you no longer desire our service or would like to delete your account, please contact our Online Customer Service team (email and phone number listed above). Receiving emails from us is part of our service. You will receive a service related email from us in order for us to manage and administer your account. You may opt-out from promotional emails to you by accessing your email preferences or selecting the “Unsubscribe” function present in each email we send you. Because we have chosen to refrain from certain types of data sharing, such as providing your Personal Data (a) for our affiliates and non-affiliates to market to you, and (b) for our affiliates for everyday business concerning your creditworthiness, the only type of sharing of your Personal Data that you may restrict is as follows: State laws may give you additional rights to limit sharing of Personal Data. See the STATE PRIVACY LAW section below for more regarding your rights under state laws.
We are a global company; your Personal Data may be transferred outside of the country in which you live. All international transfers of Personal Data are done in accordance with applicable data protection laws for the purposes set out in this Policy.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy. We implement technical and organization measures to protect your Personal Data and follow data retention practices in line with applicable law. These measures can include physical, electronic and procedural safeguards. We also limit access to your Personal Data to only employees, agents and representatives who need to know. We have put in place SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption technology to protect your sensitive information such as bank account number, credit card number, date of birth and Social Security Number, transmitted through our website. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Our website includes links to other sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Choice Money Transfer, Inc. / Small World. If you submit Personal Data to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any site you visit.
We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our website in addition to other endorsements. With your consent we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at online.usa@smallworldfs.com.
You may also provide Personal Data about other people, such as their name, email address, beneficiary account number and mobile number. This information is only used for the sole purpose of adding a new beneficiary to send money to.
A cookie is a piece of text information that a web server may transfer to your web browser when you visit this website. Cookies are commonly used by websites to improve your experience and to enable systems to recognize your browsers. Only the information that you provide, or the choices you make while visiting a website, can be stored in a cookie. For example, the site cannot determine your email name unless you choose to type it. Allowing a website to create a cookie does not give that or any other site access to the rest of your computer and only the site that created the cookie can interpret it. We may use cookies for a variety of purposes: to assist us in providing our services to you, to allow you to change pages during your visit to our website without reentering your password, to track activity on our website, or to determine whether you came to our site from an affiliate website. We may use temporary, session cookies that expire and are automatically erased when you close your browser window to enable you to perform actions when you are logged into your account. We may use long term, persistent cookies that expire in the distant future to better understand usage patterns so that we can improve our Service or to remember your choices for our Services. We may permit third parties to place cookies through our website to provide us with better insights into the use of our Services and user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Services. By accessing or using our Services, you consent to the placement of cookies on your computer or other device as described in this Privacy Policy. You may adjust your browser settings to refuse or limit cookies, but if you do, certain features of our site may be limited or not work at all. To learn more about cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies. Do Not Track (“DNT”) is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking by advertisers and other third parties. We do not use technology that recognizes DNT signals from your web browser.
We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Our website includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook and Twitter buttons and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our website. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it. Please refer to the Cookies section within the Privacy Policy and to our Cookies Policy to obtain more information about cookies we use.
We will comply with state privacy laws to the extent they apply to our services. United States, California residents: In accordance with California law, we will not share information we collect about you with companies outside of Choice Money Transfer, Inc. / Small World except as required or permitted by law. For example, we may share information to service your accounts, complete requested transactions, or to provide rewards or benefits to which you are entitled. You have the right to control whether we share some of your personal information at any time by completing the Privacy form. However, if we do not hear from you and do not receive your completed Privacy form, we may share some of your information with affiliated companies. Click here for the privacy form.
Any changes we may make to this Policy in the future will be posted on this page, and where appropriate notified to you by email. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
If you have questions or concerns about this Policy, please contact us by one of the following methods: · Phone: 1-866-210-8002 · Email: info@smallworldfs.com · Online contact form: Click here · Or please send us a letter: Choice Money Transfer, Inc. Member of Small World Financial Services Group 560 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 Small World Financial Services Group (“SWFS”) assumes no responsibility in relation to the material included in these pages. This material: a) does not necessarily provide information that is exhaustive, complete, exact or up-to-date; b) may contain links to external pages over which we have no control and whose contents may be unknown to us, reasons for which we decline all responsibility; c) does not provide professional or legal advice. It cannot be guaranteed that a document available on-line exactly reproduces an officially adopted text. Nonetheless, in the event that an error should be found in these pages, we ask you to inform us of it so that we can rectify as soon as possible. The reproduction, copying, use, distribution, commercialisation, public communication, or any other such activity involving the contents of these web pages is forbidden and always requires explicit authorization from SWFS. Any such activities will be penalized in accordance with the copyright legislation applicable. SWFS does not necessarily coincide with the information and opinions contained in these web pages. SWFS takes no responsibility for the misuse of the contents of these web pages on the user's behalf. SWFS takes no responsibility for any information not contained in these web pages and as such, not issued directly under the control of SWFS or not published with its name. In particular, SWFS is not responsible for the contents and the information contained in the web pages of third parties connected by links with the web pages pertaining to SWFS. SWFS reserves the right to update the contents of these web pages whenever it may see fit, as well as to delete them and to limit or prevent access to them, whether temporary or permanent. SWFS is not obliged to control the information and opinions that users may transmit in the open forums of these web pages. However, SWFS reserves the right to delete from its web pages any information or opinion from users that may be contrary to the law in force, especially when this represents an infringement of fundamental individual rights and liberties. Whenever it is necessary to use a password or user name to access a service contained in these web pages, the user is obliged to keep it secret and use it diligently. In the event of the loss or negligent use of the password, the user will be responsible for any use that third parties may have been able to make of it. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DOES SWFS ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR POSSIBLE DAMAGE, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR OF ANY OTHER NATURE, DERIVED FROM THE USE OF THIS WEB PAGE OR OF ANY OTHER WEB PAGE TO WHICH THE USER IS DIRECTED FROM THIS ONE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT ANY LIMITATION, ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, STOPPAGE OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF PROGRAMMES OR OTHER DATA FROM THE INFORMATION TREATED IN THE USER’S SYSTEM, EVEN WHEN WE HAVE BEEN EXPLICITLY INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.